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Focus Groups & Key Informant Interviews

Overview

This project is part of the Wobbly Hub and Double Spokes (WH&DS) project.

Aim: Stage 2a of the project aimed to understand the current situation for therapists, carers, providers and people with a disability in Western NSW.

Approach: In 2011, focus groups and individual interviews were held with 97 direct government and non-government service providers, 78 carers and 10 adults with a disability in western NSW.

Outcomes: The data collected gave the research team a real understanding of the lived experience of people with a disability, their family members and service providers living and working in western NSW. These multiple perspectives allowed the team to place a truly local lens to understanding the data which in turn informed the development of the pilot projects. Based on the analysis of these focus groups and interviews, and combined with the findings from the policy document analysis the research team developed a model of person and family-centred therapy.In developing this model the research team drew on the principles underlying policy and service provision by putting the person and their family at the centre surrounded by extended family and situated within their local community with government as a backdrop.